Friday, May 01, 2015

Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015

Welcome to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015!

Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word and to those who have already taken part.

If you have a post for Blogging Against Disablism, please leave a comment including the URL (web address) of your post and the catergory your post fits best. Please also link back here, wherever possible (we're at http://tinyurl.com/BADday2015).

We'll carry on updating this post as any late-comers arrive. We've also been posting links to every blog using the Twitter stream @BADDtweets and these will automatically be posted onto our Facebook Page.

Other Access Issues(Posts about any kind of access issue in the built environment, shops, services and various organisations. By "access issues" I mean anything which enables or disenables a person from doing what everyone else is able to do.)

Disablism Interacting with Other 'Isms'(Posts about the way in which various discriminations interact; the way that the prejudice experienced as a disabled person may be compounded by race, gender, age, sexuality etc..)

Mine is titled "You Can't Be in Society Like This" and belongs in the Institutions category. My blog title is Blogging Astrid. http://bloggingastrid.com/2015/05/01/you-cant-be-in-society-like-this-badd2015/

You will note I've changed the BADD logo a little. If you would rather I didn't, please let me know and I will revert to the original. If you want a copy of the new one, lemme know and I'll email it you. :)

You can find my contribution at http://fulltiltwheelie.blogspot.com. Not sure of the category as part of what I wrote is a tribute to the late Beth McClung...Not what I was originally intending but this week marked the second year of her passing.

Sorry it's late! Category is 'institutions', I think, unless you have a better idea (in which case, go for it). https://throughmyself.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/blogging-against-disablism-day-2015-disability-and-christian-churches/

Hey Sam, it was very late - I don't exactly have a cut off, but not sure we've ever had contributions after about a week or so later than May 1st. I've had a very tricky month here and am seriously disorganised just now, so I've only just sorted this out and updated the archive. Thanks for your contribution!

I don't know if you're picking up your blog comments, but I just wanted to say I miss your posts, and I hope you are okay and not having any major health problems. I think of you every day when I read my favourite blogs.

Thank you very much Gill. It's been a strange few months, some health stuff, some life stuff both good and bad and some technical stuff (great long saga with my powerchair, now similarly lengthy saga with the laptop I usually write on). However, I am heading back in this direction and hope to blog again very soon.